Friday, October 4, 2013

To Speak With Any Person That Is Dead

Earlier today I was challenged on a
certain matter – or at least felt challenged – and after
initially responding, I broke open the Grimoire of Arthur Gauntlet
to double-check just how much
necromancy is in it. (I was correct in remembering that it was quite
a bit.)

Immediately upon
opening the book, however, I noticed one of the smaller sections that
I had previously missed. And immediately became deeply amused.
Bibliomancy, how does
it work? LOL.

“To
Have Conference with Spirits: –

To Speak with any person that is
dead:

Go
into the churchyard on a Friday at night at 12 or 2 of the Clock And
Walk round about in the Alley 6 times And when you come to a Corner
Stand still And say the Lord's Prayer and the Creed And before you
have gone 6 times about you shall meet them that you would speak with
As they were wont to go.”- The
Grimoire of Arthur Gauntlet,
Edited by David Rankine. (P. 288)

It's followed by some of the
Fairy Conference
rituals, which also may involve ghosts...

And then I noticed
something just as amusing:

“To
Go Invisible:Take
the water of Fennel and go unto a Ants hillock Saying 9 Times putting
down the water on the hillock:Conjuro
te Belzebub hostem domini nostri Jesu Christi ut redeam in Lapidem
per quem eum invisibilis.”-
The Grimoire of
Arthur Gauntlet,
Edited by David Rankine. (P. 300)

There are a few other
invisibility spells in that section of the book, all of which look
fascinating and some of which I will clearly have to mess around
with. It is immediately followed for spells to be used in conjunction
with magical plants – Valerian and Vervaine – that look
incredibly awesome, too.

I have to give Mr. Rankine due
credit:

he
has armed us with a most excellent Grimoire, and highly useful
rituals and spells insofar as a certain type of practitioner may be
concerned. Honestly: I cannot recommend the book enough.